our authors

Susan Isaacs: Second Edition

Read now a blog by author Philip Graham on his latest Open Access title 'Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children'.

OBP Newsletter

Open Book Publishers - Winter Newsletter - February 2023

Welcome to our Winter Newsletter! We have information on our open Call for Proposals, updates including our Author Survey and our involvement with PALOMERA, new and forthcoming publications and latest reviews, interviews, features and blogs.

COPIM

Open Book Publishers Joins the Open Book Collective

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is delighted to announce that we have joined the Open Book Collective (OBC). Keep reading to find out more.

Our books

Teaching European History in the 21st Century

Read now a blog by Emma Johnson and Jochen Hung on one of our latest Open Access titles 'The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000'

our authors

Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

The aim of this book is to address the following question: why are education reforms so difficult to implement and so easy to reverse? i

annual report

Open Book Publishers - Annual Report 2022

Welcome to our Annual Report! As we come to the end of this year, it is with great pride that we look back at the many exciting things that have happened here at OBP in 2022!

New OBP Website

This summer we introduced a new website. Read this blog to find out more about some of the key improvements we have done.

our authors

The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame

Read now 'The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame' by Jan M. Ziolkowski, author of 'The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity' and 'Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings'

Our books

Greening Europe: Powering the argument for green investment during challenging times

Read Now: a blog post written by our volunteer Joanne Walton on 'Greening Europe: 2022 European Public Investment Outlook' by Floriana Cerniglia and Francesco Saraceno.

Our books

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

This blog post was written by Bill Sutherland (Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Nigel Taylor (Research Associate in the Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

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Steven Jan on Music and/as Evolution

Read now a blog by OBP author Steven Jan where he discusses the topic of his latest title 'Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music'

Open Access Week 2022

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?

Read Now: Thea Potter's blog on climate change, climate justice and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

climate change

Artists were the First Environmentalists: Pictures Tracking Climate Change & Assaults on Nature

Read Now: Katherine Manthorne's blog on climate change, art history and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

climate change

Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge

Read Now: Mihnea Tănăsescu's blog on climate justice, academic research and OA written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

About Us

Shrinking our carbon footprint: Open Access publishing and environmental sustainability

This Open Access Week’s theme of ‘Open for climate justice’ has given us at Open Book Publishers an opportunity to reflect on our own environmental impact as a press.

Our books

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.

Academic Publishing

Is a Rights Retention Clause needed for OA books?

When discussing funder-imposed Rights Retention Strategies (RRS) there is an important consideration for funders of Open Access (OA) books that differs from journals. It will be explored in this post.

Our books

A People’s Voice

We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.

OBP Newsletter

Open Book Publishers - Summer Newsletter - August 2022

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter! We have information on our open Call for Proposals, new publications, latest reviews, interviews, features, blogs and more!

Our books

Maggot Medicine

Read now: a new blog by Dr Frank Stadler, editor of 'A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics'.

Our books

The Merger Mystery

Read Now: a new blog by Geoff and J. Gay Meeks, authors of 'The Merger Mystery: Why Spend Ever More on Mergers When So Many Fail?'.

Our books

The Makings and Remakings of The Juggler of Notre Dame, A Medieval Miracle of the Virgin and Its Modernization: An Anthology

Hear ye, hear ye! This is not to announce that a court is in session but that a story book is nearly ready to be opened. Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings, by Jan M. Ziolkowski, is forthcoming.

Libraries

The University of Worcester joins Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Scheme

> At the University of Worcester we’re delighted to be able to support the Open Book Publishers (OBP) programme. Our values are intellectual openness, democracy and love of learning; they are symbolised by our joint public/university library The Hive and our involvement in diamond Open Access initiatives such as

Open Book Publishers - Spring Newsletter - May 2022

Welcome to our Spring Newsletter! We have updates from COPIM and the OABN, information about our new and forthcoming publications, calls for proposals, new blogs, latest reviews and more...

Our books

A Paean to the Much-maligned Cover Song

Read now a new blog by P.D. Magnus, author of 'A Philosophy of Cover Songs' where he discusses this Open Access title.